Germany evacuates 101 people from Sudan, where conflict enters second week
According to defence officials, German military aircraft were using a Sudanese airfield close to the capital Khartoum after departing from Azraq in Jordan, roughly a three-hour flight away
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Berlin, Germany: Germany has evacuated 101 individuals from Sudan, where violent combat between opposing generals has entered its second week, the army announced on Sunday.
The evacuees “landed safely in Jordan” at approximately midnight local time (2100 GMT), according to a tweet from the Bundeswehr.
Three A400Ms in all had arrived in Sudan on Sunday to pick up passengers for evacuation, it continued.
According to an army official, the aeroplane was transporting both German citizens and people from other nations.
According to defence officials, German military aircraft were using a Sudanese airfield close to the capital Khartoum after departing from Azraq in Jordan, roughly a three-hour flight away.
The foreign and defence ministries had earlier said they were conducting “an ongoing evacuation operation… in coordination with our partners”.
“Our aim is to fly as many (German) nationals out of Khartoum as possible in this dangerous situation in Sudan,” the ministries wrote on Twitter.
“Within the scope of our possibilities, we will also take EU and other nationals with us,” they added.
The United States, Britain, and France have all started to begin removing their nationals from Sudan.
According to the magazine Der Spiegel, Germany attempted to start evacuations on Wednesday but failed.
Three military cargo aircraft were ordered to turn around as they approached the nation, it said.
The German government was preparing to rescue some 300 German people, according to a story published on Sunday in the newspaper Bild.
For the duration of the expedition, a truce has been agreed upon, it stated.
Additionally, according to Bild, the German army has dispatched paratroopers to Jordan in an effort to assist with ongoing evacuation operations.
The fighting between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s forces and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began on April 15 over a dispute on the planned integration of the RSF into the regular army.
The violence has left at least 420 dead and 3,700 injured, according to the World Health Organization.
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